Tom Davidson

• Tom DavidsonJun 13, 2022, 3:51 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: DragonGod’s comment on: Towards a For­mal­i­sa­tion of Re­turns on Cog­ni­tive Rein­vest­ment (Part 1)

  Glad you added these empirical research directions! If I were you I’d prioritize these over the theoretical framework.

• Tom DavidsonFeb 13, 2020, 1:39 AM

  2 points

  in reply to: RobinHanson’s comment on: What can the prin­ci­pal-agent liter­a­ture tell us about AI risk?

  So either one must claim that AI-related unawareness is of a very different type or scale from ordinary human cases in our world today, or one must implicitly claim that unawareness modeling would in fact be a contribution to the agency literature.

  I agree that the Bostrom/​Yudkowsky scenario implies AI-related unawareness is of a very different scale from ordinary human cases. From an outside view perspective, this is a strike against the scenario. However, this deviation from past trends does follow fairly naturally (though not necessarily) from the hypothesis of a sudden and massive intelligence gap

• Tom DavidsonFeb 10, 2020, 9:56 PM

  2 points

  in reply to: Wei Dai’s comment on: What can the prin­ci­pal-agent liter­a­ture tell us about AI risk?

  Re the difference between Monopoly rents and agency rents: monopoly rents would be eliminated by competition between firms whereas agency rents would be eliminated by competition between workers. So they’re different in that sense.